Lidia Simon wins women’s Half Marathon at Denver Rock’n Roll Marathon
Lidia Simon, a five-time Olympian for Romania who lives in Boulder, won the women’s half in 1:18:01 despite coming down with a bad cold four days ago. Simon recently turned 40.
“For next year I will be masters,” Simon said. “We’ll see, too, if I can keep going with elite runners.”
And maybe a sixth Olympics in 2016? She’s hoping.
“You never know.”
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Lidia Simon is an elite long-distance runner, earning a silver medal in the marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she represented Romania. She competed in five Olympic Marathons (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012). She is a six-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics, winning gold in 2001 and taking bronze medals at the Marathon World Championships in 1997 and 1999. She holds three victories at the Osaka Ladies Marathon (1998, 1999, and 2000) and set her personal best during her win in 2000 at 2:22:54. She placed 1st in the 2007 Toray Cup Shanghai Marathon. She also won the first edition of the combined Osaka Marathon in 2011, and then again in 2012. Her half-marathon personal best time of 1:08:34 is the Romanian national record and she won the Bolder Boulder in 1999 and the Denver Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon in 2011.
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